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India celebrates harvest festivals
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A youth displays his catch during community fishing as part of the Bhogali Bihu celebrations at the Goroimari Lake in Panbari village, some 50 kilometers east of Gauhati. (AP Photo)
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Indian villagers raise their bamboo made fishing tools in celebration before participating in community fishing as part of the Bhogali Bihu celebrations near Gauhati. (AP Photo)
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Indian villagers participate in community fishing during the Bhogali Bihu celebration at Goroimari Lake in Panbari village, some 50 kms from Guwahati. (AFP Photo)
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Indian Hindu devotees cook a traditional sweet dish on open fires during a community function on the occasion of Pongal in Mumbai. (AFP Photo)
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A Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil boy prays during a Hindu temple procession marking the Pongal festival in Colombo. (AP Photo)
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Sri Lankan ethnic Tamil Hindu devotees carry an idol of their deity during a Hindu temple procession marking the Pongal festival in Colombo, Sri Lanka. (AP Photo)
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Hindu pilgrims take the annual holy dip on the auspicious ‘Makar Sankranti’ day at Gangasagar, the confluence of the Ganges River and the Bay of Bengal, about 140 kilometers (88 miles) south of Kolkata. (AP Photo)
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A Hindu devotee prays while taking a dip early morning at Sangam, the confluence of rivers Ganges and Yamuna on Makar Sankranti in Allahabad. (AP Photo)
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Sadhus and Hindu piligrims from all over the country come for the annual Hindu holy festival of Gangasagar Mela with more than four hundred thousand pilgrims gathering at the Gangasagar to take a 'holy dip' at the confluence of the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal on the occasion of Makar Sankranti. (AFP Photo)
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